The other day I read this great interview with Brian Lamb the founder of C-Span in Reason Magazine (great magazine BTW, you should pick up an issue – or listen to my show and win a free subscription, only until Christmas!)
Anyways, in this very wide ranging interview, one of the topics that came up was a discussion of fiscal issues versus social issues, and the gentleman made a very good point. He basically said something like “abortion or gay marriage will not kill America, but our debt will”
I completely agree. The fiscal issues facing this country are so enormous that they cannot be ignored any longer. They must be dealt with first, and we must remain laser focused on doing whatever we can to improve the economy and the debt situation. There really is no other issue which is as pressing as that.
Therefore, no matter how the enemies of freedom try to bring up the social issues which candidates have an opinion on, they must resist the temptation to go there. They must always redirect the conversation back to fiscal issues.
In reality, I don’t care about how a candidate feels about abortion or gay marriage, as long as that candidate leaves those issues on the back burner and keeps the state from encoding any funds towards supporting or working against that issue. The government does not belong in that space, ever. Plus, we have much, much bigger fish to fry.
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